New book seeks justice for unfairly sullied Jewish composer
A victim of Wagner, will Giacomo Meyerbeer finally get his due?
OPERA DIRECTOR Dietmar Schwarz poses beside a statue of German composer Richard Wagner in Berlin. Wagner’s antisemitic tirades erased Jewish composers like Meyerbeer from history at the time.(photo credit: FABRIZIO BENSCH / REUTERS)BySANDRA LEE BRAUDE